Ayutthaia

Ayutthaia is a city and an island at the confluence of three rivers, I wont bother you with the names, but it did help to make it both an easy defensible position as well as a great location to tax traders moving up and down its waters.During the 417 years, from the 14th to the 18th century, that the Thai royal court resided here they built a huge number of palaces, temples and mausoleums. Then in 1767 Burmese sacked the city and carried of a great deal of its wealth and the place was effectively abandoned.Today the ruins remain and make for a hauntingly beautiful landscape.

A Buddha keeps watch over the ruins of Wat Mahathat

The triple Chedi of PrahSisanpetch

The head of a Buddha statue covered by the roots of a Banyan tree

The modern day temple at ViharnMonkholbopit

It’s obligatory big Buddha.

A small Chedi I came across wandering through a field across the river